10 things we didnt know last week.

[Flobalob]

9. Asda might not process your photos if they look too good.

So that's why..

[Dr Frook]

1. People with blue eyes are more likely to have an alcohol addiction.


2. Heaven exists but hell does not, according to the theology of Fifa president Sepp Blatter.


3. UK officials discussed plans to relocate the entire 5.5 million population of Hong Kong to Northern Ireland in 1983.


4. Hillary Clinton has difficulty operating a fax machine and loves Chinese carpets.


5. The hermaphrodite flatworm reproduces by injecting sperm into its own head with its needle-like penis.


6. In 2014, 68 ferrets entered the UK under the terms of the European Union's Pet Travel Scheme.


7. US founding father Thomas Jefferson was obsessed by mammoths.


8. The UK, Canada, China, Germany and India have the most inventive diasporas.


9. In the 1930s and 1940s, 7-Up included lithium citrate as a mood-booster.


10. A tennis player can produce up to three litres of sweat an hour.

[Dr Frook]

1. Dozens of Beatles songs were never recorded because John Lennon and Paul McCartney forgot them.


2. Butt-dials aren't considered private conversations in the US.


3. Romantic kissing is practised in fewer than half of the world's cultures.


4. A UK court can determine how short your shorts should be.


5. Sanitary towels in Venezuela sell for £140.


6. Hackers evade virus scanners using passages from Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility.


7. People feel significantly happier and their blood pressure comes down when they spend time in aquariums.


8. People who walk while texting take bigger swerves to avoid obstacles and lift their legs higher when stepping over things.


9. Pretending to eat chocolate can curb your cravings for it.


10. Cockerels follow a strict pecking order that determines who gets to wake everyone up on the farm each morning.

[Dr Frook]

1. Buzz Aldrin claimed $33.31 in travel expenses around his trip to the moon.


2. For three months, Leicestershire police didn't investigate attempted burglaries if they occurred at odd-numbered properties.


3. Keith Richards thinks Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is "rubbish".


4. Women suffer more than men during relationship break-ups, but they recover better.


5. Armadillos are bullet-resistant.


6. People who regularly read for pleasure are less likely to have feelings of stress and depression, have higher self-esteem, are better able to deal with difficult situations and have superior sleeping patterns.


7. To avoid openly drinking vodka in front of elders, which would be disrespectful, Uzbek men sometimes drink it from a teapot.


8. Your ability to lie peaks in young adulthood and then gradually declines.


9. Horses have 17 recognised facial expressions.


10. Every London Underground line's Twitter feed has either the Myers-Briggs personality type ESTJ ("The Doer") or ESTP ("The Guardian") - with the exception of the Waterloo and City Line, which is ESFP, "The Performer".

[Flobalob]

1. Buzz Aldrin claimed $33.31 in travel expenses around his trip to the moon.

how even..? from who?

[Dr Frook]

1. Drones make black bears nervous.


2. Most Facebook users use "haha" to express laughter, while only 1.9% use "lol".


3. There is a Ned Flanders-themed heavy metal band.


4. Real Paleolithic people, contrary to some of the followers of the fashionable modern diet named after them, appear to have eaten plenty of carbohydrates.


5. US presidential contender Bernie Sanders has an 80-year-old brother, Larry, who stood for the Green party in Oxford West and Abingdon at the 2015 UK general election.


6. Reindeer migration is a major live television event in Norway.


7. Labelling an idea a "conspiracy theory" doesn't make people any less likely to believe it.


8. Zebras' stripes don't make it any harder for predators to catch them, but may help them keep cool.


9. People tend to underestimate how many creative ideas they can come up with if they keep trying.


10. The Pacific striped octopus gently taps its prey on the shoulder before attacking.

[Rainshard]

1. Drones make black bears nervous..

Clever bears. Drones should make everyone nervous.

[Dr Frook]

1. Whisky tastes different when it matures in space.


2. People were making porridge 32,000 years ago.


3. The simpler and more repetitive a song's lyrics, the more likely it is to reach number one in the Billboard Hot 100, debut in the top 40 and climb the chart more rapidly.


4. At least three earthquakes strike the UK every year because of human activity.


5. Sperm whales have different dialects.


6. There is a fish in Australia called the "blue bastard".


7. It's possible to trick a driverless car into thinking it's about to crash using lasers.


8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.


9. The producer who was Gordon the Gopher's puppeteer is now the BBC's head of editorial standards.


10. Children are the most fun to be around at the age of five.

[Flobalob]

8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.

how even..?

[Icamenal]

8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.

how even..?

Pretend that there are a million men and million women, all obese, all with the same Body Mass Index (a high one, obviously). The men will often have more abdominal fat than the women. There's a connection between a high Body Mass Index and hormones, where pathways related to the fat and hormone-related factors could have a protective effect against arthritis.

I'm totally not one of those people who go to the weird medical side of the Youtubes.
*shifts uncomfortably*